News roundup: The top 10 Republicans likely to run for president

The top 10 Republicans likely to run for president. LDS Church: Priesthood only for men. Chaffetz takes a tour of the liberal side.

Happy Monday. No, Mitt Romney isn't running for president again. He's said it like a hundred times now. But who is? The Washington Post runs down the top 10 Republicans likely to make a bid for the highest office in the land. [

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LDS Church reiterating this weekend that only men can hold the priesthood; the statement comes after the excommunication of Kate Kelly, founder of the Ordain Women group. [

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-> John Dehlin, who runs a website for members of the LDS Church who question their faith, may face excommunication, but is waiting for his bishop to make that decision. [

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-> Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, toured Rep. Elijiah Cummings' Baltimore district to better understand where he comes from. Chaffetz and Cummings may be the top two leaders on a powerful House committee next year. [

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Tweet of the day:

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-> Mark Miller, who sits on the Community Board of Directors for University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, supports Gov. Gary Herbert's "Healthy Utah" Medicaid expansion plan and says its will be good for the economy. [

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-> The Tribune's Thomas Burr says the nation's memorials counteract the cynicism of the capital and "help bring the underpinnings of America back into focus." [

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-> George Pyle argues that if UTOPIA goes, so will any competitor to Comcast and any safeguard of net neutrality. [

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-> Connor Boyack, Kent Hart and Marina Lowe, with the Libertas Institute, the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the ACLU of Utah, respectively, say Utah's police officers need to reconsider their use of force and aggressive tactics in home raids, such as the one on former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. [

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-> Anne McMullin Peffer with the nonprofit Circling the Wagons, which serves Mormon minorities, says Kate Kelly has not been "trying to gain a following," as the LDS Church wrote in her excommunication letter, but rather fights against inequality in a manner according to her values. [